Origins

Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto standing upon raging ocean waves beneath dark storm clouds, a god of overwhelming power consumed by loneliness and longing in the Age of the Gods

Episode 42: The Roar of the Ocean — The Emptine...

Prologue Raging billows. Giant columns of water piercing the heavens. In the middle of the dark ocean, enveloped in black clouds and roaring thunder, stood a single god, planting his...

Episode 42: The Roar of the Ocean — The Emptine...

Prologue Raging billows. Giant columns of water piercing the heavens. In the middle of the dark ocean, enveloped in black clouds and roaring thunder, stood a single god, planting his...

Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto standing upon a still water mirror beneath a vast starry sky, emitting cold silver moonlight in eternal solitude as the God of Night in the Age of the Gods

Episode 41: Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's Silence and t...

Prologue When the sun's heat recedes and the world sinks into a deep ultramarine, the realm he governs quietly raises its curtain. "Yoru no Osukuni" (The Realm of Night). A...

Episode 41: Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto's Silence and t...

Prologue When the sun's heat recedes and the world sinks into a deep ultramarine, the realm he governs quietly raises its curtain. "Yoru no Osukuni" (The Realm of Night). A...

KAMIYO Episode 40: Amaterasu Omikami's Heavy Burden and the Throne

KAMIYO Episode 40: Amaterasu Omikami's Heavy Bu...

Prologue A sea of clouds stretched endlessly across Takamagahara, the High Plain of Heaven. Into the center of that boundless, pure white sky stepped a single, beautiful goddess. Amaterasu Omikami....

KAMIYO Episode 40: Amaterasu Omikami's Heavy Bu...

Prologue A sea of clouds stretched endlessly across Takamagahara, the High Plain of Heaven. Into the center of that boundless, pure white sky stepped a single, beautiful goddess. Amaterasu Omikami....

KAMIYO Episode 39: The Birth of the Mihashira-no-Uzu-no-Miko (The Three Noble Children) — The New Sun, Moon, and Ocean

KAMIYO Episode 39: The Birth of the Mihashira-n...

Prologue: The Final Purification, Wiping Away the Gazed Despair In the pure flow of the Awagihara river, Izanagi scooped up plenty of clear water in both hands. Reflected on that...

KAMIYO Episode 39: The Birth of the Mihashira-n...

Prologue: The Final Purification, Wiping Away the Gazed Despair In the pure flow of the Awagihara river, Izanagi scooped up plenty of clear water in both hands. Reflected on that...

KAMIYO Episode 38 – Izanagi performing Misogi purification in the river at Awagihara, gods born from cast-off garments and defilement, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 38: The Misogi at Awagihara — Th...

Prologue: The Chill Under the Sun, the God of Life Eaten Away Having eternally sealed the boundary between life and death with the Chibiki-no-Iwa (Boulder of Chibiki), Izanagi finally returned...

KAMIYO Episode 38: The Misogi at Awagihara — Th...

Prologue: The Chill Under the Sun, the God of Life Eaten Away Having eternally sealed the boundary between life and death with the Chibiki-no-Iwa (Boulder of Chibiki), Izanagi finally returned...

KAMIYO Episode 37 – Izanagi pushing the Chibiki-no-Iwa boulder to seal Yomotsu-Hirasaka, the eternal parting of life and death between Izanagi and Izanami, Japanese mythology illustration

KAMIYO Episode 37: The Boulder of Chibiki — The...

Prologue: The Approaching Fundamental Despair Izanagi, having repelled the army of Yomi and the Yakusa-no-Ikazuchi (Eight Thunder Gods) through the sacred power of the peaches (Ookamuzumi-no-Mikoto), sat at the exit...

KAMIYO Episode 37: The Boulder of Chibiki — The...

Prologue: The Approaching Fundamental Despair Izanagi, having repelled the army of Yomi and the Yakusa-no-Ikazuchi (Eight Thunder Gods) through the sacred power of the peaches (Ookamuzumi-no-Mikoto), sat at the exit...